Re: [PATCH] signal: re-arm ignored periodic POSIX timers when handler is installed in do_sigaction()
From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 09:02:07 EST
On 09/19, Hui Peng wrote:
>
> When a periodic POSIX timer fires while its target signal is ignored
> (e.g. default SIGCONT/SIGCHLD/SIGURG/SIGWINCH or SIG_IGN), the signal is
> dropped without advancing or queueing the timer's sigqueue, leaving the
> periodic timer stalled even after userspace installs a signal handler
> via sigaction(). Check and re-arm any pending ignored POSIX timers on
> the thread group when do_sigaction() transitions a signal out of the
> ignored state.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Well, It was supposed to have been fixed by caf77435dd8a ("signal: Handle
ignored signals in do_sigaction(action != SIG_IGN)") and other commits in
that series...
Do you have a test-case?
Oleg.
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
> index ec30550951ec..49ba188296c4 100644
> --- a/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -4351,7 +4351,7 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact)
> sigaction_compat_abi(act, oact);
>
> if (act) {
> - bool was_ignored = k->sa.sa_handler == SIG_IGN;
> + bool was_ignored = sig_task_ignored(p, sig, false);
>
> sigdelsetmask(&act->sa.sa_mask,
> sigmask(SIGKILL) | sigmask(SIGSTOP));
> @@ -4367,7 +4367,7 @@ int do_sigaction(int sig, struct k_sigaction *act, struct k_sigaction *oact)
> * (for example, SIGCHLD), shall cause the pending signal to
> * be discarded, whether or not it is blocked"
> */
> - if (sig_handler_ignored(sig_handler(p, sig), sig)) {
> + if (sig_task_ignored(p, sig, false)) {
> sigemptyset(&mask);
> sigaddset(&mask, sig);
> flush_sigqueue_mask(p, &mask, &p->signal->shared_pending);
>